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Tuesday, July 20, 6:30 pm – Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 pm
A Howlround for India:
A 24-hour marathon of Covid-19 talks
with the Global Theatre Community
Fifteen prominent American writer/directors are part of a worldwide roster of over 100 global theater artists lending their voices July 20, 2021 to “HowlRound for India,” a 24-hour online marathon of live readings and talks honoring the Indian theater community for its efforts in facing Covid-19. The event will call loudly and urgently for India and the rest of the world to find better political solutions to prevent such disasters.
This free virtual event, carried live on HowlRound Theatre Commons, is organized by Frank Hentschker, Director of CUNY’s Segal Theatre Center; Abhishek Majumdar, a playwright/director from Bangalore, India; and Mumbai-based director/producer Tanvi Shah.
The aim is to help mobilize a worldwide outpouring that can reach the ears of government and business leaders in India, where responses to the pandemic were initially successful but later foundered horribly.
“A HowlRound for India” is not a fundraiser: India had and has enough resources to prevent and solve this crisis. Still, while in the western world in some places over 70 % of the population has been vaccinated, the situation in India remains apocalyptic as India prepares for the third wave. During the second wave in April, May, and June, India had bodies piling up. Morgues were overloaded and bodies needed to be burned on the streets. Life-saving oxygen was unavailable, while lynchings and extrajudicial killings remained commonplace. Covid patients in rural areas had and continue to have inadequate access to the Internet to request a bed in a hospital. Multitudes of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers have died. Amidst this, since the beginning of the pandemic, Indian theater artists like Abhishek Majumdar and his team have volunteered night after night to help their fellow citizens.
Bangalore, Majumdar’s home base, was the epicenter of India’s Covid outbreak. Teams of artists there haveorganized food and ad hoc resources for the afflicted. Their undertakings included food drives, locating parts for oxygen machines and repairing them, and staying up nights to call and connect with the sick–monitoring their oxygen levels and arranging hospital admissions for them. Teams of artists were and remain similarly active in other cities and localities around the country.
U.S. participants in “HowlRound for India” will include (as of this writing) Anne Bogart, Rachel Cooper, Philip Howze, Carol Martin, Maude Mitchell, Manuel Moran, Anne Cattaneo, Carey Perloff, Paulette Richards, Carl Hancock Rux, Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann, James Scruggs, Tom Walker and Tamilla Woodard. Noted ensembles participating include: The Pina Bausch Company, The Living Theatre, The Bread and Puppet Theater and Rimini Protocol. There will be about 50 Indian theater artists participating. Other global participants will include over 40 artists from at least 30 countries, notably: Guillermo Calderón (Chile), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo), Frédérique Aït-Touati (France), Papermoon Puppet Theatrer (Indonesia), Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia) and Guy Régis Jr. (Haiti). The complete lineup and schedule is available at: https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event/howlround-for-india.
This marathon is the culminating event of The Siegel Theatre Center’s online conversation series, “The Time of Corona,” which has offered colloquies on art during the pandemic featuring more than 200 theater artists from over 50 countries.In assembling this marathon, The Segal Center invited 50 Indian theater artists and 50 prior Segal Talk guests to read excerpts from works that inspired them in these difficult times.
The marathon will be moderated by the Segal Center’s Frank Hentschker and hosted on HowlRound (https://howlround.com), a US based non-profit digital platform for theater and performance.Goals are:
to highlight the devastating COVID-19 situation in India
to honor the memory of theater artists who died during the time of Corona
to celebrate the inspiring contribution by global theatre artists during the COVID Crisis (especially in India)
to provide a short update from countries around the world and a comment on the social and political situation
The marathon will be live streamed on https://howlround.com from 9:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 20 to 9:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 21.
Admission is free and the event is online only.“HowlRound for India” is an initiative of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (www.TheSegalCenter.org) and The Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
Musical Theme by Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy and Vasu Dixit
Lead Creative: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Tech Support Team: Kaushikee Gupta, Jeshron Tao, Krutarth Kanjarkar, Rachit Khetan, and Thea Rodgers
Lead Graphic Designer: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Social Media Management: Cactus Juice
Schedule:
6:30 pm India
Abhishek Majumdar & Tanvi Shah (India)
Thea Rodgers (HowlRound) + Surprise guest
7:30 pm India Moloyashree Hashmi & Komita Dhanda (New Delhi)
Hope Azeda (Rwanda)
Carol Martin (US)
8:30 pm India Ajithlal Sivalal (Kerala) & Vivek Vijayakumaran (Karnataka)
Elisabeth Hayes (France)
Pamela Villoresi (Italy)
9:30 pm India Sreeja (Kerala), live translated by Deepa VM (Kerala)
Basil Jones (South Africa)
Manuel Moran, Paulette Richards (US)
10:30 pm India M D Pallavi (Karnataka) & Mumal Tanwar (Rajasthan)
Liwaa Yazji (Syria)
Richard Schechner (US)
11:30 pm India Anurupa Roy (New Delhi)
Adelheid Roosen (Netherlands)
Aina Tur (Spain)
12:30 am India Sapan Saran (Maharashtra)
Penda Diouf & Marine Bachelot Nguyen (France)
Anne Bogart (US)
1:30 am India Rupali Bhave & Pradeep Vaiddya (Maharashtra)
Eva Mann (Switzerland) & Washington Obwanda (Kenya)
Anne Cattaneo (US)
2:30 am India Dakxinkumar Bajrange & Atish Indrekar (Gujarat)
Dr. GoraParasit (Lithuania)
Carl Hancock Rux (US)
3:30 am India Dhammarakshit Randive (Maharashtra) & Kaustubh Naik (Goa)
Andrea Tompa & Laszlo Upor (Hungary)
Maude Mitchell (US)
4:30 am India Titas Dutta & Sajal Mondal (West Bengal)
Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll (Germany)
Madhusree Mukherjee (India)
Daniely Francisque (Martinique)
5:30 am India Hanne M. de Bruin & Perrungattur P. Rajagopal (Tamil Nadu)
Mok Chiu Yu (Hong Kong)
Tom Walker (US)
6:30 am India Puja Sarup (Maharashtra) & Nuhar Bansal (Karnataka)
Hanchen Feng (China)
James Scruggs & Tamilla Woodard (US)
7:30 am India Sunil Shanbag (Maharashtra)
Guillermo Calderón (Chile)
Sasapin Siriwanij (Thailand)
8:30 am India Onaiza Drabu (Kashmir)
Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia) & Rachel Cooper (US)
Chou Tung-Yen & Wu-Kang Chen (Taiwan)
9:30 am India Nisha Abdulla & Diya Naidu (Karnataka)
Sahar Assaf (Lebanon) & Tanvi Shah
Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia)
10:30 am India Gunduraju (Karnataka), live translated by Anurupa Roy (New Delhi)
Toshiki Okada (Japan)
Carey Perloff (US)
11:30 am India Sambhaji Bhagat (Maharashtra), live translated by Kaustubh Naik (Goa)
Patricia Cornelius (Australia)
Mihaela Drăgan & Mihaela Michailov (Romania)
1:30 pm India Manzoor Mir (Kashmir), live translated by Abhishek Majumdar (Karnataka)
Marco Martinelli & Ermanna Montanari (Italy)
Papermoon Puppet Theater/ Maria Tri Sulistyani (Indonesia)
2:30 pm India Shakuntala Nagarkar, live translated by Savitri Medhatul (Maharashtra)
Peter Schumann (US)
Iman Aoun (Palestine) & Dalia Basiouny (Egypt)
3:30 pm India P Pavana & N. Venugopal (Telangana)
Frédérique Aït-Touati (France)
Thomas Oberender (Germany)
4:30 pm India A. Mangai with Ponni Arasu, Krishna J. Nair, & Sadhashi Baskar (Tamil Nadu)
Ruth Kanner (Israel)
Avra Sidiropoulou (Greece)
5:30 pm India Abhishek Majumdar & Tanvi Shah (India)
+ Surprise guest
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A Howlround for India: a 24-hour marathon of Covid-19 talks with the global theatre community (India Standard Time)
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with the Global Theatre Community
Fifteen prominent American writer/directors are part of a worldwide roster of over 100 global theater artists lending their voices July 20, 2021 to “HowlRound for India,” a 24-hour online marathon of live readings and talks honoring the Indian theater community for its efforts in facing Covid-19. The event will call loudly and urgently for India and the rest of the world to find better political solutions to prevent such disasters.
This free virtual event, carried live on HowlRound Theatre Commons, is organized by Frank Hentschker, Director of CUNY’s Segal Theatre Center; Abhishek Majumdar, a playwright/director from Bangalore, India; and Mumbai-based director/producer Tanvi Shah.
The aim is to help mobilize a worldwide outpouring that can reach the ears of government and business leaders in India, where responses to the pandemic were initially successful but later foundered horribly.
“A HowlRound for India” is not a fundraiser: India had and has enough resources to prevent and solve this crisis. Still, while in the western world in some places over 70 % of the population has been vaccinated, the situation in India remains apocalyptic as India prepares for the third wave. During the second wave in April, May, and June, India had bodies piling up. Morgues were overloaded and bodies needed to be burned on the streets. Life-saving oxygen was unavailable, while lynchings and extrajudicial killings remained commonplace. Covid patients in rural areas had and continue to have inadequate access to the Internet to request a bed in a hospital. Multitudes of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers have died. Amidst this, since the beginning of the pandemic, Indian theater artists like Abhishek Majumdar and his team have volunteered night after night to help their fellow citizens.
Bangalore, Majumdar’s home base, was the epicenter of India’s Covid outbreak. Teams of artists there haveorganized food and ad hoc resources for the afflicted. Their undertakings included food drives, locating parts for oxygen machines and repairing them, and staying up nights to call and connect with the sick–monitoring their oxygen levels and arranging hospital admissions for them. Teams of artists were and remain similarly active in other cities and localities around the country.
U.S. participants in “HowlRound for India” will include (as of this writing) Anne Bogart, Rachel Cooper, Philip Howze, Carol Martin, Maude Mitchell, Manuel Moran, Anne Cattaneo, Carey Perloff, Paulette Richards, Carl Hancock Rux, Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann, James Scruggs, Tom Walker and Tamilla Woodard. Noted ensembles participating include: The Pina Bausch Company, The Living Theatre, The Bread and Puppet Theater and Rimini Protocol. There will be about 50 Indian theater artists participating. Other global participants will include over 40 artists from at least 30 countries, notably: Guillermo Calderón (Chile), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo), Frédérique Aït-Touati (France), Papermoon Puppet Theatrer (Indonesia), Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia) and Guy Régis Jr. (Haiti). The complete lineup and schedule is available at: https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event/howlround-for-india.
This marathon is the culminating event of The Siegel Theatre Center’s online conversation series, “The Time of Corona,” which has offered colloquies on art during the pandemic featuring more than 200 theater artists from over 50 countries. In assembling this marathon, The Segal Center invited 50 Indian theater artists and 50 prior Segal Talk guests to read excerpts from works that inspired them in these difficult times.
The marathon will be moderated by the Segal Center’s Frank Hentschker and hosted on HowlRound (https://howlround.com), a US based non-profit digital platform for theater and performance. Goals are:
The marathon will be live streamed on https://howlround.com from 9:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 20 to 9:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 21.
Admission is free and the event is online only. “HowlRound for India” is an initiative of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (www.TheSegalCenter.org) and The Graduate Center CUNY, New York.
Jonathan Slaff, js@jsnyc.com
Musical Theme by Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy and Vasu Dixit
Lead Creative: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Tech Support Team: Kaushikee Gupta, Jeshron Tao, Krutarth Kanjarkar, Rachit Khetan, and Thea Rodgers
Lead Graphic Designer: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Social Media Management: Cactus Juice
Schedule:
6:30 pm India
Abhishek Majumdar & Tanvi Shah (India)
Thea Rodgers (HowlRound) + Surprise guest
7:30 pm India
Moloyashree Hashmi & Komita Dhanda (New Delhi)
Hope Azeda (Rwanda)
Carol Martin (US)
8:30 pm India
Ajithlal Sivalal (Kerala) & Vivek Vijayakumaran (Karnataka)
Elisabeth Hayes (France)
Pamela Villoresi (Italy)
9:30 pm India
Sreeja (Kerala), live translated by Deepa VM (Kerala)
Basil Jones (South Africa)
Manuel Moran, Paulette Richards (US)
10:30 pm India
M D Pallavi (Karnataka) & Mumal Tanwar (Rajasthan)
Liwaa Yazji (Syria)
Richard Schechner (US)
11:30 pm India
Anurupa Roy (New Delhi)
Adelheid Roosen (Netherlands)
Aina Tur (Spain)
12:30 am India
Sapan Saran (Maharashtra)
Penda Diouf & Marine Bachelot Nguyen (France)
Anne Bogart (US)
1:30 am India
Rupali Bhave & Pradeep Vaiddya (Maharashtra)
Eva Mann (Switzerland) & Washington Obwanda (Kenya)
Anne Cattaneo (US)
2:30 am India
Dakxinkumar Bajrange & Atish Indrekar (Gujarat)
Dr. GoraParasit (Lithuania)
Carl Hancock Rux (US)
3:30 am India
Dhammarakshit Randive (Maharashtra) & Kaustubh Naik (Goa)
Andrea Tompa & Laszlo Upor (Hungary)
Maude Mitchell (US)
4:30 am India
Titas Dutta & Sajal Mondal (West Bengal)
Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll (Germany)
Madhusree Mukherjee (India)
Daniely Francisque (Martinique)
5:30 am India
Hanne M. de Bruin & Perrungattur P. Rajagopal (Tamil Nadu)
Mok Chiu Yu (Hong Kong)
Tom Walker (US)
6:30 am India
Puja Sarup (Maharashtra) & Nuhar Bansal (Karnataka)
Hanchen Feng (China)
James Scruggs & Tamilla Woodard (US)
7:30 am India
Sunil Shanbag (Maharashtra)
Guillermo Calderón (Chile)
Sasapin Siriwanij (Thailand)
8:30 am India
Onaiza Drabu (Kashmir)
Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia) & Rachel Cooper (US)
Chou Tung-Yen & Wu-Kang Chen (Taiwan)
9:30 am India
Nisha Abdulla & Diya Naidu (Karnataka)
Sahar Assaf (Lebanon) & Tanvi Shah
Govin Ruben & Terence Conrad (Malaysia)
10:30 am India
Gunduraju (Karnataka), live translated by Anurupa Roy (New Delhi)
Toshiki Okada (Japan)
Carey Perloff (US)
11:30 am India
Sambhaji Bhagat (Maharashtra), live translated by Kaustubh Naik (Goa)
Patricia Cornelius (Australia)
Mihaela Drăgan & Mihaela Michailov (Romania)
12:30 pm India
Surjit Nongmeikapam (Manipur) & Nicky Chandam (New Delhi)
Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo) & Gianina Carbunariu (Romaina)
Pina Bausch Company/Bettina Wagner-Bergelt (Germany) & Héléna Pikon (France)
1:30 pm India
Manzoor Mir (Kashmir), live translated by Abhishek Majumdar (Karnataka)
Marco Martinelli & Ermanna Montanari (Italy)
Papermoon Puppet Theater/ Maria Tri Sulistyani (Indonesia)
2:30 pm India
Shakuntala Nagarkar, live translated by Savitri Medhatul (Maharashtra)
Peter Schumann (US)
Iman Aoun (Palestine) & Dalia Basiouny (Egypt)
3:30 pm India
P Pavana & N. Venugopal (Telangana)
Frédérique Aït-Touati (France)
Thomas Oberender (Germany)
4:30 pm India
A. Mangai with Ponni Arasu, Krishna J. Nair, & Sadhashi Baskar (Tamil Nadu)
Ruth Kanner (Israel)
Avra Sidiropoulou (Greece)
5:30 pm India
Abhishek Majumdar & Tanvi Shah (India)
+ Surprise guest
PHOTOS OF SELECTED PARTICIPANTS are available for download at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3gX9mLn3iNjsJUuX6
ORGANIZER CONTACTS:
New York, USA
Frank Hentschker:
fhentschker@gc.cuny.edu
Bangalore, India
Abhishek Majumdar and Tanvi Shah
tanvishah893@gmail.com